FUN WITH FONDUE!

Greetings from the bagels' computer class and we have just been speaking about how much we would give for a pot of fondue right now in the cold wintery afternoon (VB is ready to give up her right arm). As you should know (and if you dont then shame on you) there are many different kinds of fondue. Fondues for dinner and dessert! This week we shall enlighten you on how to make them, how to eat them and why you should totally reward yourselves during the holidays with a steaming hot pot of fondue and share it with a loved one. (If you dont have one, just go lesbian with your girlfriends like us bagels do ;) ) no really.

First of all..... MEAT FONDUE

MEET MEAT FONDUE! (hahahaha) Meat fondue or more formally knows as fondue Bourguignonne is a pot filled with hot oil into which you can dip pieces of meat or chicken. The best part is that it comes with baked potatoes (the big ones) and lots of other stuff too like yummy sauces!

thennnnnnnnnnnn we haveeeeeeeeeeee..... drumroll please

JEEZ! ITS CHEESE FONDUE! (we are so funny) Cheese fondue is originally swiss and is basically a pot full of hot cheeeeeese. Now, you might say that this is not that cool , but MY GOD when you dip bread, broccoli, muchrooms, pepper, tomatoes, potatoes whatever you like in there.. its like god came and cheesed us.. thats not supposed to be perverted!

and last but certainly not least.......

CHOKE ON CHOCOLATE! yes it is white or milk chocolate melted until its all warm and smooth and pwhoooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaar SO GOOD! and you can dip in just about anything from bananas and strawberries to marshmallows and crackers =) perfect!

Now before we end this beautiful and educational blogpost on fondues, we should inform about traditions that come with fondue! In our opinion the best traditions are that if a man drops his food in the fondue pot he buys a round of drinks and if a women drops her food she has to kiss her neighbors! There are also other traditions that include singing and so on but these are what we have been dealing with...

until we meet (meat hahahahha) again

THE BAGELS

ps, we are off to the shop to buy fondue now

The obstacles we face while baking and how to overcome them

You've already read the success story of making the Ultimate Birthday Cake, The cake that shall not be named or whatever u wanna call it. That really showed the positive side of baking and how much fun it is; that is when everything works out well. However, even us bagels dont always get it right. This week we're gonna tell u all about the blunders of baking and how they can possibly be conquered.

Well for one we strongly discourage you guys to use any Finnish ready-to-bake kits. THEY SUCK. For example, a week ago VB arrived at CSB's house to make brownies, and VB had bought a great brownie kit, or so she thought. All you had to do was add water and put the whole thing in the oven. We couldn't have done it wrong. This is what we got as a result. ^
A hard, giant cookie that didn't even taste good. FAIL.

This particular ready-to-bake kit was for dieters, so it had only like 9 % fat in it. And no, we most certainly are not back with the 4 day wonder diet (NEVER are we gonna do that again), but our friends seem to be constantly dieting so we figured that they could eat this. They didnt. Anyway the reduced fat crap never really works. Thats why we, from now on, buy our baking stuff from Stockmann's American Food department. They always work well and are most certainly not for dieters.

Moving on. A few days ago VB got a sudden desire to make gingerbread, so VB decided to go to the grocery store to get some dough (duh it takes like two days to prepare ofc we buy it from the store). VB, however, had not thought this through, because as she soon discovered, she had no baking paper. It was time to be creative. This is what happened.

This actually worked out rather well, tho it does look kinda funny. However, there were more obstacles to come. VB failed to find gingerbread muotteja (no idea what theyre called in English) so, again, creativity (as in CAS) took over.

You dont really need the muotit, its a lot faster this way. You just take a small amount of dough in ur hand, flatten it and VOÍLA!

These were the most recent examples of us bagels failing when cooking or baking. But we learn from our mistakes and move on, for instance from now on, we never buy anything that says reduced fat again, we always go to Stockmann's American food department and we always check that we have everything we need for the recipe in question. We screw up a lot and we make a mess but you gotta be able to see the funny side of it. Thats what makes baking fun for us.

Till we meet again,
BAGELS <3

ps. never try to make cookies in the microwave, it doesnt work.
pps. we are planning on making the ultimate chocolate cake pretty soon so you guys have something to look forward to for sure ;)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FINLAND!

So, yesterday it was independance day here in finland so let all of us finns stand up and say: "PERKELE!" Us bagels are Finnish and BLOODY PROUD OF IT so this blog entry will be all about finnish independance and how the finns celebrate it foodwise =)

sorry, not very appetising is it..

OKAY SO ANYWAY FOOD:

The finnish families usually spend their independance day with eachother eating nice food and watching tarja halonen (OUR BEAUTIFUL PRESIDENT) dress badly.. So what foods go together with Tarja's clothes? Well heres some examples of appetizers:

no its not nemos egg baby HAHAHHAHA its roe!!! again!!! our favourite food!!! AND WE GOT IT YESTERDAY!

salmonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn =) no explanations needed we hope

HAHAHAHHA no really, we eat liver.. but not human liver.. i think?

YES OKAY SO MOVING ON TO OTHER THING US FINNISH BAGELS EAT

It is what we call karjalan paisti, and in english it shall be: KARELIAN HOT POT!!

salmon babyyyy

AND FOR DESSET THERE IS A RANGE OR EVERYTHING =)=)

thats us bagels reporting for duty :)

FINLAND ;) be afraid of us

be scared!

xoxo

FINNISH AND PROUD

bagels